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Third puffed-up planet

The discovery of yet another bloated extrasolar planet was announced on Monday, making it the third to be found. WASP-1b was spotted by the Super Wide Angle Search for Planets, led by Don Pollacco of Queen’s University in Belfast, UK, and lies about 1000 light years away. The planet has slightly less mass than Jupiter but is about 1.3 times its diameter.

Keep on rollin’

They were meant to last 90 days. More than 900 days later, NASA’s twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity are still going strong. After an 18-month trek, Opportunity neared the edge of …

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